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aes4000 driver supports devices based on the Authentec AES4000 chipset.
aes4000 is part of libfprint and is developed/maintained by Daniel Drake.
Supported devices
Right now I only know of a single device that uses this chip, the Targus Defcon 1 Authenticator.
Driver history
It doesn't seem to be the case any more, but I downloaded full device specifications from Authentec's website a few years ago. This driver was written based on the specs and analysing bus traffic from the Windows driver.
Device operation
This is an imaging device, which uses complex sensory electronics to detect variations in the surface of your finger - it doesn't use optics. It then presents image data to the computer but makes no attempt to interpret it - all image processing must be done in software. libfprint handles this internally.
The device offers many controls to customize the sensitivity of the fingerprint detection system, etc. Currently we just set these to sensible values and don't allow modification of them.
When ready to scan, the driver arms the scan trigger and waits indefinitely for data. The device will send fingerprint data as soon as the calibration characteristics are met - i.e. when it detects a finger on the scanner. As such, finger detection and capture is a composite operation.
Thanks to the device specifications (which are no longer available), the protocol is entirely understood, however there are some very technical details involved (capacitances of drive rings, etc!).
Security notes
The fingerprint is always sent unencrypted over the USB bus.
There is some kind of challenge and authentication scheme offered by the device, which is mentioned in the specs. Currently, aes4000 does not use such functionality, and I'm not even sure that the specs explain it enough to make an implementation possible.
Image info
The image resolution is 64x64 pixels. 8 different darkness levels are presented in the image, but with the current calibration settings we only seem to either get 0 (no finger material detected) or 7 (full darkness finger material detected).
Imaging performance
Currently, the imaging performance of this driver is not brilliant. It generally detects 10-20 minutiae for a good scan, whereas other devices detect 40+. As a result of having less minutiae points, the matching algorithm returns lower scores, meaning that we have to lower the match score threshold to get good matching results.
In comparison to other devices, extra care must be taken to get good scans, otherwise you'll be told that your fingerprints don't match when they actually do. Ensure that your finger is aligned straight with the device and that you press the same part of your finger onto the device each time. Make a conscious effort not to just scan the tip -- push your finger a little further forward than you might think necessary. Attempt to put your finger down fairly quickly - don't place it lightly and then increase pressure, because libfprint images your finger immediately and does not wait for you to increase the pressure.
Sometimes, bad images are returned where there is no finger data there at all, just a little bit of noise (this is a bug). Also, the imaging performed by this driver can be improved which would avoid that bug and potentially improve imaging performance.
Analysis of Windows driver traffic
The first image captured from the device is low quality (but has a strong distinction between foreground and background, potentially useful for edge detection). After capturing that image, the driver reads a histogram from the device and tweaks various registers on the device to increase image quality. It then takes another sample of the finger, tweaks again, samples again, etc. Samples 1, 2 and 14 from a scan are shown below to illustrate this.
[[!img http://www.reactivated.net/fprint/img/Aes4000_sample1.gif] [[!img http://www.reactivated.net/fprint/img/Aes4000_sample2.gif] [[!img http://www.reactivated.net/fprint/img/Aes4000_sample14.gif]
It seems to calibrate based on the image data that is being returned, and the histogram after sample #1. This is done dynamically - the changes made to the registers vary on each scan.
Right now, libfprint doesn't do the "sample #1" low quality scan, but dives right in and does a scan with registers configured like they were for sample #14 above. Of course, the register values should depend on finger pressure and image contrast and everything, but they currently do not.


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Tokyo's installment of Honolulu's Joy of Sake party was packed by legions of professionals from the nihonshu industry and the well-heeled business folks from the southwestern section of the Yamanote train line. Also in attendance were some of sake's biggest supporters outside of Japan, namely author John Gauntner and sommelier Ake Nordgren, and the air in the two tasting halls was one of a giant reunion made possible by the continuing success of one of this country's most recognizable exports.
And then there was me.
To be fair, I wasn't the only nihonshu nerd in attendance, but very few others felt brave enough to whip out their notebooks and scribble tasting notes as they worked their way up and down endless banquet tables of daiginjo. And I must admit, it was truly a joyful experience.
Curiously, many guests chose to ignore the TOC Main Hall where all of the daiginjo 'A' bottles (rice polishing ratio of 40% or less) sat vulnerable to unlimited perusal. The other, more brightly lit hall had more food, but no daiginjo 'A'. With everyone busy munching away, I was allowed ample elbow room to compare some of the best sake currently known to the world. In fact, there were no less than 329 labels from 166 breweries on display, and the main hall also featured a good selection of yamahai and kimoto sake.
No, I didn't try them all. I'm only human. And there were no spit buckets.
All 329 varieties of sake were in fact entrants in the 2010 US National Sake Appraisal which took place in Honolulu back in August. That includes all of the daiginjo 'B', ginjo and junmai labels on the tables in the Tokubetsu Hall. The two day event sees ten judges run through all of the bottles as they attempt to find imbalances in each of them.
Of the 83 daiginjo 'A' bottles, 27 were gold award winners with top honors going to Kizakura's "Daiginjo", Kodama Jozo's Taiheizan "Tenko", and Nagurayama Shuzo's "Kanpyokai Shuppinshu." My favorites were Asahi Shuzo's famous "Dassai 23", a sake with the unimaginable polishing ratio of 23%, and Ume Ichirin Shuzo's "Kanpyokai Shuppinshu."
The former didn't make it to the final round during the panel's blind tasting, but the latter did and earned a gold award in the process. Interestingly, Ume Ichirin Shuzo is located in Chiba Prefecture, a region not typically associated with sake brewing excellence.
Other bottles that caught my attention were "Hana no Youna" junmai ginjo from California and "Go-Shu Blue" ginjo from Australia. Neither won plaudits from the contest's auditors, but Australia's entry was noticeably more enjoyable than America's.
More than anything, Joy of Sake is an excellent opportunity for the nihonshu-curious to figure out what they like. By using the mini-siphons to import two thimbles of sake into one's tasting cup, it's possible to keep inebriation on the back burner and slowly sample everything from the refined to the complex, the clean to the more cloying.
And of course there was food there, too. Twelve top-notch restaurants from both Japan and America provided appetizers to the buoyant guests. Takao (Los Angeles) served their Maguro Spring Roll with Avocado and Sweet Spicy Miso Sauce while Al Porto (Tokyo) offered Bruschetta di Prociutto Crudo e Caponata.
Through conversations with other guests, it became clear that many were enthusiastic about Nobu (New York) and their Fresh Sashimi from Niigata with Yuzu and Dried Miso. Hoku's (Honolulu) also had a long line waiting for bowls of its Sake Braised Black Angus Beef Short Angus Beef Short Ribs with Hawaiian Chili Pepper, Spiced Crispy Onions and Lomi Pineapple Tomato.
Judging by the 8,000 yen ticket price, Joy of Sake is not an event targeted at the 20-something crowd, and that observation was easily supported by a quick look around the audience. The average age of the guests was likely late 40s, which is not meant to imply that this sake celebration was a sedate affair. Anything but. Several couples old enough to be my grandparents kept up and carried on just like the small groups of young women four decades their junior.
If this party returns to Japan in the future, indeed if sake is to survive at home, this generational imbalance is something that they will hopefully choose to address. In the meantime, let's hope that this event continues to turn heads and change minds overseas as sake brings its special brand of Japanese joy to a wider audience.


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Nike has revealed today that, despite its status as the most popular operating system in the world, they have no plans to develop an Android app compatible with the fitness tracking gadget Fuelband. Apparently, there's no room to develop for Android when you're stuck in Apple's pocket.
According to the statement released by Nike today in response to a tweet from the company Twitter, Nike wants to focus on the web and iOS:
To deliver the best experience for all Nike+ FuelBand users, we are focusing on the FuelBand experience across iOS and nikeplus.com, where you can sync your activity, set new goals, and connect with friends. At this time, we are not working on an Android version of the mobile app.Nike PRNike
Focusing on a select few platforms in order to create the best product possible is understandable. But Nike is not just abandoning a huge part of the market; they're blowing it wide open for competitors. There's a good chance this poor decision is going to haunt them later on.
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Chelsea midfielder Juan Mata admits he only has "good words" to say about Real Madrid, but dismissed speculation he is set to leave Stamford Bridge this summer, reports ESPN.
The 25-year-old was speaking in Brazil where he is currently on international duty with Spain at the Confederations Cup, and took the opportunity to quash recent rumours surrounding his future.
After contributing 19 goals and 35 assists in all competitions in 2012/13, Mata was named Chelsea's Player of the Year for the second consecutive season.
For that reason alone, he is puzzled as to why there have been suggestions he could be sold by the club during the current transfer window, with some reports indicating that he could return to Spain with Real Madrid.
"I don't know where that came from," Mata is quoted by AS. "The last time I spoke with the club they told me I was a very important player to them and transmitted confidence in me.
"I'm sure (new manager Jose) Mourinho will want to see everyone first and then decide what he wants to do."
Mata came through Real Madrid's youth system before leaving for Valencia at the age of 19, where he went on to establish himself in the Mestalla first-team.
He says he holds fond memories from his time at the Santiago Bernabeu, but is "in love" with Chelsea and the city of London, and has no desire to leave Stamford Bridge.
"About Real Madrid I have only good words. I spent four years there growing as a player and as a person," he reflected. "I have many friends there and I stay in touch with people.
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During the past several years, Biosimilars is drawing market's attention with the upcoming patent cliff. There is an increasing interest in the development of follow-on protein products in light of advances in manufacturing technology, process control and protein characterization.
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Dr. Ajaz Hussain, President and CSO Biotechnology, Wockhardt, Dr. MK Sahib, Director Genomics and Biotechnology, Wockhardt and Dr. Anand Kumar, Deputy Managing Director, India Immunologics will be addressing key issues revolving around regulatory updates in analytical and process development, platform technologies in upstream and impurity profiling in downstream, physiochemical and biological characterization and up-scaling for production.
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SALEM, Ore. (AP) — The state of Oregon will see an influx of tax revenue from investments in the next few months, followed by a drop in future years as investors carry forward income to avoid potential tax increases, state economists said Friday.
The projection means the state should have about $87 million more to spend in the next two-year budget — a slight bump over the last projection — as lawmakers craft a new spending plan.
Still, the $16.6 billion in total anticipated revenue for the general fund and lottery is $700 million less than the estimated cost of continuing state services at current levels.
Economists expect capital gains taxes will be up 44 percent this year, and say corporate income tax collections also are coming in higher than projected.
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Oregon voters approved a ballot measure in November redirecting corporate kicker rebates to schools, but the measure wouldn't apply in this case because the initiative doesn't take effect until the next two-year budget period.
Economic growth is improving a bit but is still slower than typical economic recoveries, McMullen said.
Since Oregon doesn't have a military base or much defense industry, the state wouldn't be as seriously affected by automatic federal spending cuts set to take effect in March unless Congress cancels them, McMullen said.
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CCS Bard Presents: From 199A to 199B : Liam GillickMay 17, 2012
Curated by Tom Eccles, CCS Bard Executive Director
On view June 23 through December 21, 2012 at the Hessel Museum of Art
Opening reception: Saturday, June 23, 2012 from 1:00-5:00pm
ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, NY, May 10, 2012 – On the occasion of its 20th anniversary year, the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College (CCS Bard) will present From 199A to 199B : Liam Gillick at the Hessel Museum of Art. A survey of Gillick's work from the early 1990s that pushed for a new awareness of how art institutions function, From 199A to 199B : Liam Gillick is curated by Tom Eccles, CCS Bard Executive Director, and features works that are being shown for the first time in the United States.
The recessionary years of the early 1990s were a dynamic period of artistic change. While many artists in the United States were exposing the workings of the gallery and institution, and challenging the traditional status of artistic persona, in Europe, attention turned to the matrix of cultural production within the context of fading public funding and a new freedom to travel following the fall of the Berlin Wall.
From 199A to 199B : Liam Gillick revisits this formative period of Gillick's production in Europe, particularly France, Germany, Italy, and England, prior to his move to New York in 1998. On view throughout the fifteen galleries of the Hessel Museum, this exhibition offers a specifically selected survey of Gillick's seminal projects and installations that challenged the orthodox presentation and reception of art and its methods and practices during the 1990s. Considering the relationship between the artist, the institution, and the audience to be mutually co-dependent in the creation of meaning, Gillick created situations in which the outcome was incomplete without involving the institution and questioning the expanded role of the exhibition visitor.
In 1998, Gillick wrote, "I am interested in the establishment of a series of parallel structures, all of which work alongside each other. I am interested in setting up ways in which it might be possible to understand the complex context within which ideas and visualizations of ideas are made manifest, rather than to constantly refine a series of apparently transgressive visual novelties."
As an artist who applied writing, music, curatorial strategies and an interest in the structural aspects of conceptual art, Gillick found his most productive context away from the emerging British scene. His early work often involved collaborations with other artists, both in the production of the work itself and in the structure of exhibitions. Gillick has been widely acknowledged as a protagonist in what Nicolas Bourriaud termed "relational aesthetics" (along with Rirkrit Tiravanija, Philippe Parreno, Domonique Gonzalez-Foerster and others). This exhibition will reveal the political underpinnings of this moment and expose the way in which Gillick used simple materials and structures to expose the dynamic changes in exhibition structures – both private and public.
Texts have formed an important part of Gillick's oeuvre and From 199A to 199B : Liam Gillick highlights his use of the written and spoken word through a new recording of his novel Erasmus is late, and a radio broadcast, A Broadcast from 1887 on the subject of our time (1996), taken from his republished edition of Looking Backward, by Edward Bellamy. Gillick's Protoype Erasmus Table #2 (Gent) (1994), an oversized plywood table, provides a reading room with books and ephemera selected from the CCS Bard Library and Archive.
Gillick's writings and installations question the position of the individual at the end of the 20th-century and function as a critique of current politics. Of particular interest to Gillick in the 1990s was the emergence of an individualized leisure class and service economy during this time when collective identities gave way to increasingly personalized self-categorization and identification. Particularly prescient at a pre-internet moment is Information Room (GRSSPR, Tattoo Magazine, Women's Basketball) (1993), which fills the wall of a large gallery in the Hessel Museum with lifestyle magazines and news reports selected by the artist.
From 199A to 199B : Liam Gillick also includes Gillick's The Pinboard Project (1992), which features bulletin boards throughout the Hessel Museum filled with exhibition information and materials, alongside interventions from CCS Bard alumni/ae and other visitors to the exhibition. Further questioning the possibility or desirability of a single authorial narrative, the exhibition will also include Lost Paradise Information Service (1994), where a parallel exhibition narrative describing and presenting the show, and at the same time challenging the official materials such as press releases and signage, will be developed by CCS Bard students.
The exhibition will also feature the first works from Gillick's What If? Scenario series in which the artist tasks the viewer to participate in various activities. One scenario selected for this exhibition is undoubtedly the most playful; entitled (The What If ? Scenario) Dining Table, (1996), the piece features a room with a blue, netless table tennis table, a shaker of silver glitter, and paddles, inviting visitors to invent their own rules and play the game.
From 199A to 199B Liam Gillick has engaged current CCS Bard students Juana Berrío, Olga Dekalo, Sarah Fritchey, Sarah Higgins, Annie Larmon, Marina Noronha, Karly Wildenhaus and alumni /ae Ian Berry, Jose Luis Blondet, Cecilia Brunson, David Ho Yeung Chan, Vincenzo de Bellis, Jennifer Dunlop-Fletcher, Monserrat Albores Gleason, Nathan Lee, Fionn Meade, Tomas Pospiszyl and Gilbert Vicario, in the production of the final exhibition. Protoype Erasmus Table #2 (Gent) (1994) is produced in collaboration with Ann Butler, Director of the CCS Bard Library and Archives, and Bronwen Bitetti, Associate Librarian of the CCS Bard Library and Archives.
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Liam Gillick is based in London and New York. He was selected to represent Germany at the 53rd Venice Biennale in 2009, and a major exhibition of his work opened at the Kunst und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland in April 2010. Past solo exhibitions include The Wood Way (2002) at Whitechapel Gallery, London; A short text on the possibility of creating an economy of equivalence (2005) at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris; and the retrospective project, Three Perspectives and a short scenario, at Witte de With, Rotterdam, Kunsthalle Zurich, Kunstverein, Munich, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2008 – 2010). Gillick was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2002 and the Vincent Award at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam in 2008. Public commissions and projects include the Home Office, London (2005) and the Dynamica Building, Guadalajara, Mexico (2009). In 2006 he was a central figure in the free art school project unitednationsplaza in Berlin which travelled to Mexico City and New York. Gillick has also published a number of texts that function in parallel to his artwork. Proxemics (Selected writing 1988-2006), was published by JRP-Ringier in 2007 alongside the monograph Factories in the Snow by Lilian Haberer. A critical reader, Meaning Liam Gillick, was published by MIT Press in 2009, and an anthology of his artistic writing, Allbooks, was published by Book Works, London, in 2009. In addition, Gillick has contributed to various art magazines and journals including Parkett, Frieze, Art Monthly, October and Artforum. Gillick has taught at Columbia University in New York since 1997 and CCS Bard since 2008. His work is in the public collections of: Government Art Collection, UK; Arts Council, UK; Tate, London; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Guggenheim Museum, New York; Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.
This exhibition was made possible by the cooperation of Casey Kaplan, New York; Esther Schipper, Berlin; Air de Paris, Paris; Maureen Paley, London; Eva Presenhuber, Zurich; Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp; Kerlin Gallery, Dublin; and Meyer Kainer, Vienna.
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"Our freedoms have been defended for more than 200 years by our men and women serving in uniform in the United States military. They serve in our homeland and in faraway places across the globe. Their sacrifices and those of their families allow us to live in the freest and most prosperous nation in the world—the United States of America.
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Quote from: EdSolo on February 7, 2008, 07:18 AMHowever, the guy with the flush should have gone all in after the flop.It may, but you saw what slow playing got him. The winning hand needed cards on both the turn and the river to beat him. On these on line sites it seems that winning hands get cracked all the time like that, regardless of how you play it. I would say 75% of the time I have had pocket Kings, and Ace would come out on the flop.Just curious, but wouldn't that pretty much scare everyone off their hands unless they had an ace?
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Cheryl Roberts, president of Chemeketa Community College, will leave the regional school to take the helm of Shoreline Community College in Seattle.
Roberts announced her decision Tuesday morning, following Shoreline's decision to hire her, which was finalized Monday night.
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It's no coincidence that gay marriage, gun control, and immigration are all in the news this month. Their prominence measures a critical political shift: In the culture wars, the offense and defense have switched sides.
For decades after the cultural upheavals of the 1960s, Republicans regularly provoked confrontations on a broad array of polarizing noneconomic "wedge issues," from crime and welfare to immigration and gay rights. Democrats, with a few exceptions, mostly tried through those years to neutralize the debates and quickly pivot back to economic terrain.
Now, that has flipped. In Washington and in blue-leaning states, Democrats are forcing the collisions on these issues. Democrats may not win all of these fights legislatively, in Congress or in the state capitals. And in most red states, Republicans are still pursuing their own culturally conservative agenda, particularly on abortion. But the Democrats' willingness to take the offense on so many cultural issues represents a stark change—and a measure of their confidence that they now represent the national majority on these disputes. "If you look across the board, they are on offense. They feel like the wind is at their back, that the demographics are in their favor, and there is a confidence in prosecuting these issues," says longtime GOP strategist Pete Wehner, a senior fellow at the conservative Ethics and Public Policy Center. "Republicans are on their heels."
That almost completely inverts the politics that reigned from Richard Nixon to George W. Bush. The late, great wordsmith William Safire, in his classic Safire's Political Dictionary, described a wedge issue as "a hot-button subject that splits a coalition or constituency." Initially, wedge issues were mostly a Republican weapon. Tutored by political strategists such as Paul Weyrich and Lee Atwater, GOP leaders for years highlighted cultural and racially tinged disputes (such as abortion, school prayer, welfare, and affirmative action) that split Southern evangelicals and working-class Northern whites (particularly observant Catholics) from the Democratic coalition as if shearing an iceberg. The process peaked in the 1988 presidential race, when George H.W. Bush, at Atwater's direction, used these cudgels to disqualify Democratic nominee Michael Dukakis as a liberal elitist "born in Harvard Yard's boutique."
Blunting these attacks was central to Bill Clinton's "New Democrat" agenda, with its call for policies on welfare and crime that linked expanded opportunity to greater personal responsibility. Clinton largely defused those two issues. But on other fronts, Republicans continued to drive the debate.
On immigration, the GOP pressed to deny public benefits to both illegal immigrants (through California's Proposition 187) and legal ones (in welfare reform). Although Clinton signed into law federal background checks and an assault-weapons ban, Republicans continued to loosen restrictions on concealed weapons in red states, and after Al Gore's 2000 defeat, Democrats waved the white flag on gun control in Congress. Conservatives controlled the gay-marriage debate, too, with Clinton signing the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996 and a cascade of states banning the practice over the next decade. As president, George W. Bush endorsed a constitutional "marriage amendment" to ban same-sex marriage in every state—and in one 2004 test vote, 45 of 51 Republican senators backed him. "This national question requires a national solution," Bush insisted.
Mitt Romney's 2012 campaign embraced this wedge-based inheritance with his call for "self-deportation" of illegal immigrants, support for the marriage amendment, and opposition to gun control. But now, GOP legislators in both congressional chambers are crafting bills that would provide a pathway to citizenship for at least some undocumented immigrants. During last week's Supreme Court arguments, most leading Republicans, with little notice, effectively abandoned the constitutional amendment on marriage by insisting that states should be allowed to set their own rules. Only on gun control has the GOP held firm—and widely supported proposals to expand background checks might yet splinter that unity.
In a mirror image, Democrats across these fronts are moving with uncommon confidence. In Congress, the party has overwhelmingly unified behind immigration reform and gay marriage and is only somewhat more divided on guns; in many blue states, Democrats are also pushing gun-control and gay-rights agendas. "Guns and gays, which we used to run away from, we're now running on," says Democratic strategist Tad Devine, a top aide in Dukakis's 1988 campaign. If congressional Republicans block President Obama on immigration or expanded background checks, the 2016 Democratic nominee likely will revive—and benefit from—those causes.
Republicans gained from wedge issues when the blue-collar whites they were aimed at constituted a majority of voters. But the growing number of nonwhite or religiously unaffiliated voters and the socially liberal tendencies of the rising millennial generation have reversed the equation. At the presidential level, these noneconomic issues are mostly benefiting Democrats, not so much by dividing Republicans as by unifying the Democratic coalition of minorities, millennials, and college-educated whites, especially women.
These issues still create headaches for red-state Democrats in Congress. And, as Devine warns, without more economic growth, the national party's coalition may fissure. But as this spring's Washington battlefield demonstrates, in the culture wars, it's now most often Democrats who are charging the gates.


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HARTSVILLE, S.C. – The Coker men's volleyball team went 1-1 on its final day of competition at the King University Invitational on Saturday (Jan. 18) afternoon. The Cobras lost 3-1 in game one against Limestone College, but pulled out a 3-0 sweep in game two against Belmont Abbey College.
The Limestone match was closely contested as each of the first three sets were decided by three points or less with the navy and yellow taking the opening set 25-23. However, Limestone would rally to take the next three sets 29-27, 30-28 and 25-16 to capture the match.
Leading the way statistically for Coker was Artur Cabral with 21 kills and four digs, while Francisco Cabrera chipped in 10 kills and five digs. Cooper Lyon led the way defensively with a match-high 10 digs and Ricardo Ferrer dished out 39 assists.
In game two against Belmont Abbey, Coker would sweep the Crusaders in straight sets with scores of 25-21, 25-19 and 25-14 thanks to the offensive efficiency of Artur Cabral.
Cabral led the Cobras with 12 kills on a .455 hitting percentage, he also collected five digs in the win. Francisco Cabrera added nine kills and seven digs for Coker, while Luke Hansen tallied six kills and a team-high eight digs. Ricardo Ferrer set the attack for the navy and yellow with his match-high 27 assists.
The Cobras will return to the court next Saturday (Jan. 25) when they travel to Eastern Mennonite University to take on the Royals in a doubleheader. Matches are scheduled for 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. with live stats and video available at www.cokercobras.com.
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ALVIN, TEXAS -- When I signed up for Amigo Energy I was told it wouldn't be super expensive as I was getting a "special deal" at the local HEB. He said if you switch before 4 months then there would be no early termination fee. After the first month it was too expensive, so I switched providers. When the bill came in there was an early termination fee. They said I wouldn't have had an early termination fee if I had called and told them I was switching before I switched. I never recall being told that. I signed the online contract but I never received it in the mail or email. Very shady business practices. Don't recommend. If you are late 1 day they hit you with late fees on the dot.
PEARLAND, TEXAS -- We had a one year contract and at the end of the year we switched our electricity to another company and we always paid on line and tried to pay our last bill on line but the on line account was shut down. We never received a bill and several months later we received calls from a collection company that we owed a huge amount for our bill and late fees and collection fees.
I immediately called Amigo to get them to send us a bill since we could no longer pay on line and that promised they would send but we never received. I finally got a hold of someone at Amigo and she said that the late fees and collection was out of their hands and I finally got them to email me a bill and looked at it and for the 2 week overlap we were charged a huge increase and of course late fees and collection fees.
DALLAS -- This company has raised my electric rate in a predatory manner. My rate was increased by 136.53% in only a few months time, without notice and without warning! My payments were never late (Automatically deducted) and my service or credit did not change during this time. I have requested an explanation from Amigo on several occasions using both telephone and email, however, they never responded. Apparently, this is common practice as there are many identical complaints on public web sites about Amigo Energy.
I believe Amigo Energy has committed a breach of contract and I am the victim of fraud and abusive billing practices. STAY Away from this company at all costs. Also, if you see Mr Javier Antonio Vega in the Houston area or elsewhere, say "Hi" to the POS Amigo CEO, or kudos if you run him over.
Amigo Energy = scum! Talked my 80 year old mom into a contract several years ago at 16 cents per kilowatt hour. I did not know of this, but at the time this was about 6 cents higher that anyone else.. AND STILL IS LESS ANYWHERE!!! They took advantage of an old lady. As soon as that contract was over I switched her to another company.
FORT WORTH, TEXAS -- Okay so I saw that someone else had the same damn problem as we did.. I got merged over to Amigo in June of 2008 and never got a bill until today and bam $467 and a rate of over 24 cents when I was also told they couldn't add more than 10%. What a bunch of **.. Then I called to ask why my bill was so much and why did it take so long to get it and they tell me to contact my post office. Not only did I get one bill I got two - one from July and the other for Aug.. Then they have the nerve to tell me they emailed me and sent bills.. I'm calling BBB tomorrow morning...
HOUSTON, TEXAS -- We engaged a 6 month contract with: Amigo Energy 777 S Post Oak Blvd Suite 700 Houston TX 77056. In the next billing cycle following the 6 month term, without notice our rate was raised from .107 kwh to .2419 kwh. Our bill was raised from $292 to $664 due to the delay it takes to change providers our bill next month will increase from about $300 to $750. I asked for documentation that their costs had increased similarly and nothing was available in writing.
This is pure bait and switch and predatory billing. If you've been victimized too, contact the Texas State Attorney General, the Better Business Bureau and the Public Utility Commission of Texas. We have done so and await their arbitration.
AUSTIN, TEXAS -- As many of us that had the misfortune of being transfer from NPC to Amigo; we just got screw big time. Not only they were late in sending statement but also increase the rate to .2419 from .129 (NPC Rate). They charging me of 9 days of service a fee for not exceeding the 500 kwh usage. Let me bend over and just ** me. Their customer service needs an overhaul. It is a joke. You wait for ever and "if you want to leave a message"; it just put you on hold again. Please, please don't use Amigo Energy! Go somewhere else!
HOUSTON, TEXAS -- We were forcibly changed to Amigo Energy from NPC as NPC pulled out of Houston residential electrical service. The contract we have states they cannot raise the rate by more than 10% per month. Amigo would not send a bill or give a rate - when we finally cancelled/transferred we got a double month bill - a rate increase from 0.125 to 0.2469 per kwh. 3 days to pay or an additional late fee of $32. This seems extremely bad practice and I have filed complaints with PUC and BBB. Please watch out for this issue - it appears that I am not the only one Amigo Energy is ripping off.


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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Chamber of Commerce on Thursday declared federal deficit reduction its top goal for 2013 and questioned whether Washington politicians were brave enough to take the steps necessary to rein in a fast-growing national debt.
"Do we have leaders with the courage to put the country first - ahead of their own careers, politics, ideologies and egos?" asked Thomas Donohue, president of the country's largest business group.
Donohue, in the chamber's 2013 "state of American business" address, said the upcoming budget fights in Congress should be addressed mainly by "controlling deficit spending through common sense entitlement reform."
Such reforms, which have long been discussed by Democratic President Barack Obama and members of Congress, would slow government spending on Social Security retirement benefits and the Medicare program for the elderly and disabled.
Besides controlling a national debt that now stands at $16.4 trillion, the chamber wants to make progress during 2013 on some long-held goals.
These include increasing U.S. energy production, expanding the export of American products abroad and easing the burden of federal regulations that the business group says handcuff economic growth.
Donohue said that while the U.S. economy continues to slowly improve, the chamber is forecasting a somewhat lackluster 2013 that sees growth in the range of 1.5 percent to 1.75 percent during the first half of the year, "gradually accelerating to 2.5 percent by the end of the year."
A divided Congress and Obama face deadlines of mid-February to early March for increasing the rapidly depleting Treasury Department borrowing limit and deciding the fate of deep, across-the-board spending cuts that would be split evenly between domestic and military programs.
At the end of March, temporary funding runs out for most government programs, raising the possibility of agency shutdowns.
Since the beginning of 2011, Republicans in Congress and Obama have battled over tax and spending policies, as they struggled to craft a "grand compromise" that would save at least $4 trillion over 10 years.
They have only managed to enact around $2 trillion in savings.
Donohue said the looming deadlines "will mean more uncertainty for our economy, our businesses and for financial markets at home and abroad."
Obama is demanding a "balanced" approach to deficit-reduction that uses a mix of spending cuts and revenue increases to get the U.S. fiscal house in order. This comes on the heels of Obama winning on New Year's Day an income tax rate increase for upper-level earners following budget battles in 2011 that focused squarely on spending cuts.
Republicans argue that the next round of deficit reduction must be achieved purely through spending cuts aimed mostly at entitlement programs.
During his speech and at a subsequent press conference, Donohue was upbeat about prospects for immigration reform, saying that he has been collaborating with Richard Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO, the nation's largest labor organization, as well as with state governors and industry leaders.
"I feel positive about it and look forward to this, this year," Donohue told reporters.
AFL-CIO spokesman Jeff Hauser told Reuters that the labor group was "working with the Chamber of Commerce to make sure that we develop an actual working immigration process in this country that includes a clear roadmap to citizenship for the 11 million (who are) undocumented."
Donohue said immigration reform must secure U.S. borders, improve guest worker programs and "provide a path out of the shadows" for undocumented immigrants - provided they meet "reasonable" conditions.
Among the conditions that have been discussed are establishing firm waiting periods for citizenship for those here illegally, imposing fines and possibly requiring back taxes to be paid.
Donohue touched on other chamber priorities for 2013:
- "Modest adjustments" to Medicare are needed "to turn down the growth on the curve of cost increases," he said. Without providing specifics, he mentioned changing patient co-payments, altering the "structure" of benefit programs and finding "refinements in how the healthcare is delivered."
- It is time to "quit fooling around" and raise federal gasoline taxes to help fund infrastructure investments, he said. The federal highway fund is low on revenue, in part because of a slow economy and in part because more fuel-efficient vehicles cut gasoline consumption.
- He said the chamber will not shy away from aggressive legal action to try to stop Obama administration regulations it opposes including the Dodd-Frank financial industry reforms. The chamber will seek "fixes to those areas of Dodd-Frank that Congress and the regulators simply got wrong." He also put the administration on notice that the National Chamber Litigation Center will "significantly expand ... in order to deal with regulations."
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Sharks coach Shane Flanagan felt compelled to take a dossier of "disgraceful" decisions to his post match press conference after his side's week one finals exit.
And Sea Eagles boss Trent Barrett was just as livid with the NRL Bunker after arguing two "unbelievable" calls cost his Manly their season.
But what does the tale of the tape say? We run the rule over the most contentious rulings in the Sharks' shock loss to the Cowboys and the Sea Eagles' defeat at the hands of the Panthers.
Sharks v Cowboys
38th min: Jayden Brailey applies pressure to Michael Morgan on the last play and the ball is kicked into his hand as he tries to make a tackle, ricocheting into touch and the Cowboys are awarded a scrum feed.
Flanagan says: "Going into tackle a kicker, the kicker kicks the ball at him, he doesn't play at it. Scrum, Cowboys feed."
Video verdict: Brailey doesn't make a legitimate attempt to charge down the kick, but referees have been consistent in similar instances when a defender's hand comes into contact with the ball from a pass. Line ball call.
40th min: James Maloney is sent to the sin bin for pulling back Ethan Lowe as he pursues a grubber into the in-goal.
Flanagan says: "When is James Maloney a professional foul? It's not a professional foul, it's a penalty, if that. Luke Lewis got run off the ball every time. Go and watch the video and see how many times he got knocked off the ball in the kick-chase. The touch judge is calling on the sports ears 'Lachlan Coote offside'. So what's first? Penalty to us."
Video verdict: Coote is several metres behind the play and onside when Michael Morgan threads a kick into the in-goal. Maloney clearly impedes the attempt of Ethan Lowe to retrieve the ball by sticking his arm out to ensure the Cowboys forward can't make a play at scoring a try. Good call.
53rd min: Sosaia Feki is dragged into touch by Kyle Feldt as Ricky Leutele looms up in support on the inside with Kane Linnett in close attention.
Flanagan says: "Sosaiai Feki goes down the sideline in a really important part of the game and goes to pass it to Ricky Leutele ... and guess what, he got tackled without the ball."
Video verdict: Leutele is tackled to the ground by Linnett without the ball, but Feki looks to have gone into touch beforehand and the centre appears in front of him in any case even if the pass was thrown. Good call.
63rd min: Jason Taumalolo wrestles four Sharks defenders over the line and claims a try after falling to the ground. It's sent the video referee as a try and the call stands.
Flanagan says: "I couldn't see where the ball was grounded but [the referee] makes a decision. The bunker, I understand, it was always going to come back as insufficient evidence to overrule. But I want to know where the referee got his evidence from in the first place."
Video verdict: It is unclear on replays whether Taumalolo has got the ball down. Line-ball call.
75th min: Andrew Fifita stoops low to gather a grass-cutting Michael Morgan kick and is ruled to have knocked the ball on. The Cowboys level the game up in the next set with a penalty goal.
Flanagan says: "If anyone on this planet thinks Andrew Fifita knocked that ball on ... it went through his legs, tunnel ball, through his legs."
Video verdict: The ball touches Fifita's hands and goes backwards through is legs. Bad call.
76th min: Matt Prior is penalised for dislodging the ball from Shaun Fensom in a tackle, paving the way for Ethan Lowe's penalty to level the scores in the dying minutes.
Flanagan says: "Matt Prior [is] effecting a tackle. They say he pulls it out and [the Cowboys] kick a goal."
Video verdict: Fensom appears to simply lose control, in similar fashion to how Cronulla's Ricky Leutele receives a penalty in the first half when he drops the ball, a decision that precedes a Sharks try. Bad call.
80th min: Paul Gallen appeals for what would be a match-winning penalty in the last minute after being dragged down just inches short of the line. As he tries to get to his feet the ball pops loose, Scott Bolton's hand ever so briefly coming into contact with the pill.
Flanagan says: "Trying to get up to play the ball and there is a bloke who pulls the ball out. But go down the other end of the field and Matt Prior, effecting a tackle, they say he pulls it out and he gives a goal."
Video verdict: Bolton's arms are wrapped around the ball in the ruck but Gallen appears to just let it go. Good call.
Sea Eagles v Panthers
48th min: Dylan Walker speeds through to ground a Blake Green kick, but the referees want to check he has two feet behind the kicker when the ball leaves the five-eighth's boot. It's sent to the bunker as a try.
Barrett says: "The on-field referee and the two touch judges thought he was [onside]. Yet the video ref was 100 per cent certain that he was in front."
Video verdict: The tape suggests it's extremely difficult to definitely say Walker was offside. Given the on-field ruling of try Manly can feel aggrieved. Dubious decision.
74th min: Bryce Cartwright tries to dribble a kick into the in-goal close to the Sea Eagles' line, but it deflects off Daly Cherry-Evans' boot and into the torso of Tyrone Peachey who swipes at the ball afterwards and then grounds it across the stripe. It's sent to the video referee as a try.
Barrett says: "At 10-10, how you get an on-field decision when a player kicks it into one of our players, it ricochets off him into the Penrith player's chest, off his hand ... how they can say that they are 100 per cent confident that is a try is beyond me."
Video verdict: Who knows? Having watched it countless times, it can't be 100 per cent said Peachey definitely makes contact with the ball via his hand. Very hard to overturn.


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UC Hastings's Privacy & Technology Project has been given a $112,786.35 cy pres award from a class action against satellite radio giant Sirius XM. The suit alleged Sirius XM illegally recorded customers' phone calls and invaded their privacy.
The case, Batmanghelich v. Sirius XM Radio, was settled in 2011 for $9.5 million. When funds from a class action suit cannot be distributed directly to the class, they can be distributed to a non-profit charitable organization whose work advances the public interest and indirectly benefits the class members.
"Facilitating cy pres awards to UC Hastings is a great way for alumni to promote the real interests of the class members of cases in which they may be involved while also supporting the law school beyond their personal philanthropy," said Shino Nomiya, Assistant Dean for Institutional Advancement.
Ken Gaines '70, of Gaines & Gaines in Los Angeles, worked on the case with his son and law partner, Daniel. Gaines said the groundbreaking Privacy & Technology Project is an ideal choice for the remaining settlement funds.
"I wanted to support the leading role that the law school is taking in the privacy and technology field," he says. "But I also wanted to take the opportunity to give back to my alma mater. UC Hastings gave me a fabulous education, and I wanted to say thank you."
The Sirius XM cy pres award will be used to support UC Hastings' Privacy & Technology Project in its research, advocacy and community outreach. Its goal is to help alter the relationship individuals have with their own information so that they may exercise some measure of authority and control.
"With the funding, our students and faculty can help develop cutting edge solutions to the privacy challenges of modern life. It allows us to teach law in action and law in context," said Professor Robin Feldman, co-director of the Project.
For more information on how to designate a cy pres award to UC Hastings or its research projects, please contact Beverly Parayno, Grants Writer, at firstname.lastname@example.com or 415.581.8820.